{"id":53,"date":"2021-04-20T10:37:49","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T10:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gone-too-soon.online\/?page_id=53"},"modified":"2023-02-21T09:50:46","modified_gmt":"2023-02-21T09:50:46","slug":"poems","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/gone-too-soon.online\/index.php\/poems\/","title":{"rendered":"Poems"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container hundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);background-position: center center;background-repeat: no-repeat;border-width: 0px 0px 0px 0px;border-color:#e2e2e2;border-style:solid;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start\" style=\"width:104% !important;max-width:104% !important;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\" style=\"background-image: url(&#039;https:\/\/gone-too-soon.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/photo-1546345414-16d37d6baa05-1024x681-1.jpeg&#039;);background-position:left center;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 184px 0px;\" data-bg-url=\"https:\/\/gone-too-soon.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/photo-1546345414-16d37d6baa05-1024x681-1.jpeg\"><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-bottom:200px;width:100%;\"><div class=\"fusion-separator-border sep-single sep-solid\" style=\"border-color:rgba(226,226,226,0);border-top-width:0px;\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\" style=\"text-align:center;\"><h3 class=\"fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" style=\"color: #443f3f; --fontsize: 32; line-height: 1.3; font-size: 56px;\" data-fontsize=\"32\" data-lineheight=\"41.6px\" data-fusion-font=\"true\">A Picture of You<\/h3>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><style type=\"text\/css\">.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-0{width:100% !important;margin-top : 0px;margin-bottom : 20px;}.fusion-builder-column-0 > .fusion-column-wrapper {padding-top : 0px !important;padding-right : 0px !important;margin-right : 1.92%;padding-bottom : 184px !important;padding-left : 0px !important;margin-left : 1.92%;}@media only screen and (max-width:1024px) {.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-0{width:100% !important;order : 0;}.fusion-builder-column-0 > .fusion-column-wrapper {margin-right : 1.92%;margin-left : 1.92%;}}@media only screen and (max-width:640px) {.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-0{width:100% !important;order : 0;}.fusion-builder-column-0 > .fusion-column-wrapper {margin-right : 1.92%;margin-left : 1.92%;}}<\/style><\/div><style type=\"text\/css\">.fusion-body .fusion-flex-container.fusion-builder-row-1{ padding-top : 0px;margin-top : 0px;padding-right : 0px;padding-bottom : 0px;margin-bottom : 0px;padding-left : 0px;}<\/style><\/div><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-2 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);background-position: center center;background-repeat: no-repeat;border-width: 0px 0px 0px 0px;border-color:#e2e2e2;border-style:solid;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start\" style=\"max-width:1248px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-1 fusion_builder_column_1_6 1_6 fusion-flex-column\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><\/div><\/div><style type=\"text\/css\">.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-1{width:16.666666666667% !important;margin-top : 0px;margin-bottom : 20px;}.fusion-builder-column-1 > .fusion-column-wrapper {padding-top : 0px !important;padding-right : 0px !important;margin-right : 11.52%;padding-bottom : 0px !important;padding-left : 0px !important;margin-left : 11.52%;}@media only screen and (max-width:1024px) {.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-1{width:16.666666666667% !important;order : 0;}.fusion-builder-column-1 > .fusion-column-wrapper {margin-right : 11.52%;margin-left : 11.52%;}}@media only screen and (max-width:640px) {.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-1{width:100% !important;order : 0;}.fusion-builder-column-1 > .fusion-column-wrapper {margin-right : 1.92%;margin-left : 1.92%;}}<\/style><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-2 fusion_builder_column_2_3 2_3 fusion-flex-column\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-2\" style=\"font-size:18px;\"><p style=\"text-align: center;\">I only have a picture now<br \/>\nA frozen piece of time<br \/>\nTo remind me how it was<br \/>\nWhen you were here, and mine.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I see your smiling eyes<br \/>\nEach morning when I wake<br \/>\nI talk to you, and place a kiss<br \/>\nUpon your lovely face.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">How much I miss you being here<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><style type=\"text\/css\">.fusion-body 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.fusion-flex-container.fusion-builder-row-3{ padding-top : 0px;margin-top : 0px;padding-right : 0px;padding-bottom : 0px;margin-bottom : 0px;padding-left : 0px;}<\/style><\/div><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-4 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);background-position: center center;background-repeat: no-repeat;border-width: 0px 0px 0px 0px;border-color:#e2e2e2;border-style:solid;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start\" style=\"max-width:1248px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-5 fusion_builder_column_1_6 1_6 fusion-flex-column\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><\/div><\/div><style type=\"text\/css\">.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-5{width:16.666666666667% !important;margin-top : 0px;margin-bottom : 20px;}.fusion-builder-column-5 > .fusion-column-wrapper {padding-top : 0px !important;padding-right : 0px !important;margin-right : 11.52%;padding-bottom : 0px !important;padding-left : 0px !important;margin-left : 11.52%;}@media only screen and (max-width:1024px) {.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-5{width:16.666666666667% !important;order : 0;}.fusion-builder-column-5 > .fusion-column-wrapper {margin-right : 11.52%;margin-left : 11.52%;}}@media only screen and (max-width:640px) {.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-5{width:100% !important;order : 0;}.fusion-builder-column-5 > .fusion-column-wrapper {margin-right : 1.92%;margin-left : 1.92%;}}<\/style><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-6 fusion_builder_column_2_3 2_3 fusion-flex-column\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-3\" style=\"font-size:20px;\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-4\" style=\"font-size:18px;\"><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); color: var(--body_typography-color); font-family: var(--body_typography-font-family); font-style: var(--body_typography-font-style,normal); font-weight: var(--body_typography-font-weight); letter-spacing: var(--body_typography-letter-spacing);\">I really cannot say<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); color: var(--body_typography-color); font-family: var(--body_typography-font-family); font-style: var(--body_typography-font-style,normal); font-weight: var(--body_typography-font-weight); letter-spacing: var(--body_typography-letter-spacing);\">The ache is deep inside my heart<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); color: var(--body_typography-color); font-family: var(--body_typography-font-family); font-style: var(--body_typography-font-style,normal); font-weight: var(--body_typography-font-weight); letter-spacing: var(--body_typography-letter-spacing);\">And will never go away.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); color: var(--body_typography-color); font-family: var(--body_typography-font-family); font-style: var(--body_typography-font-style,normal); font-weight: var(--body_typography-font-weight); letter-spacing: var(--body_typography-letter-spacing);\">I need to feel you constantly<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); color: var(--body_typography-color); font-family: var(--body_typography-font-family); font-style: var(--body_typography-font-style,normal); font-weight: var(--body_typography-font-weight); letter-spacing: var(--body_typography-letter-spacing);\">To get me through the day<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); color: var(--body_typography-color); font-family: var(--body_typography-font-family); font-style: var(--body_typography-font-style,normal); font-weight: var(--body_typography-font-weight); letter-spacing: var(--body_typography-letter-spacing);\">I loved you so very much<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); color: var(--body_typography-color); font-family: var(--body_typography-font-family); font-style: var(--body_typography-font-style,normal); font-weight: var(--body_typography-font-weight); letter-spacing: var(--body_typography-letter-spacing);\">Why did you go away?<\/span><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The angels came and took you<br \/>\nThat really wasn\u2019t fair<br \/>\nThey took my dearest Son<br \/>\nMy future life, my heir.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">If only they had asked me<br \/>\nIf I would take your place<br \/>\nI would have done so willingly<br \/>\nLeaving you this world to grace.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">You should have had so many years<br \/>\nTo watch your life unfurl<br \/>\nAnd in the mist of this<br \/>\nWatch me, your Mum grow old.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I hope you\u2019re watching from above<br \/>\nAs the daily tasks I do<br \/>\nAnd let there be no doubt at all<br \/>\nI really did Love You.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"\" style=\"text-align: center; --fontsize: 32; line-height: 1.3;\" data-fontsize=\"32\" data-lineheight=\"41.6px\"><u><br \/>\nIn Loving Memory ~ A Lovely Daughter<\/u><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I\u2019m nearly at your resting place<br \/>\nAnd just as I get near,<br \/>\nI swear I hear your voice cry out<br \/>\nLook ~ I\u2019m over here.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I\u2019ve brought some lovely flowers<br \/>\nFor you my lovely Daughter,<br \/>\nI\u2019ll only be a minute now<br \/>\nI\u2019ll go and get some water.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">As I walk across the grass<br \/>\nAnd place the flowers in the pot,<br \/>\nI say to God, forgive me<br \/>\nBut I miss her such a lot.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">They say that everything that\u2019s wished<br \/>\nComes to those who wait,<br \/>\nI wish I could gather you in my arms<br \/>\nAnd run out of that gate.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"\" style=\"text-align: center; --fontsize: 32; line-height: 1.3;\" data-fontsize=\"32\" data-lineheight=\"41.6px\"><u><br \/>\nA Special Son<\/u><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">To lose someone so special<br \/>\nIs really hard to bear<br \/>\nIt hardly seems believable<br \/>\nThat you\u2019re no longer there.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">You left us far too early<br \/>\nBefore your time, it seems<br \/>\nAnd now you\u2019ll never have the chance<br \/>\nTo fulfil all those dreams.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">However hard it is though<br \/>\nWe\u2019ll take comfort in the thought<br \/>\nOf all the memories we have<br \/>\nAnd the happiness you brought.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">You always lived life to the full<br \/>\nBut ours won\u2019t be the same<br \/>\nUntil the day when we can see<br \/>\nYour smiling face again.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"\" style=\"text-align: center; --fontsize: 32; line-height: 1.3;\" data-fontsize=\"32\" data-lineheight=\"41.6px\"><u>Stairway to Heaven<\/u><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">If Tears could build a stairway<br \/>\nAnd memories a lane,<br \/>\nI would walk right up to Heaven,<br \/>\nAnd bring you back again<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">No farewell words were spoken,<br \/>\nNo time to say \u201cGoodbye\u201d<br \/>\nYou were gone before I knew it<br \/>\nAnd only God knows why.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">My heart still aches with sadness,<br \/>\nAnd secret tears still flow,<br \/>\nWhat it meant to Love You<br \/>\nNo one can ever know.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">But now I know you want me,<br \/>\nTo mourn for you no more,<br \/>\nTo remember all the happy times,<br \/>\nLife still has much in store.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Since you will never be forgotten,<br \/>\nI pledge to you today \u2013<br \/>\nA hollowed place within my heart<br \/>\nIs where you\u2019ll always stay.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"\" style=\"text-align: center; --fontsize: 32; line-height: 1.3;\" data-fontsize=\"32\" data-lineheight=\"41.6px\"><u><br \/>\nThat\u2019s Normal<\/u><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">If you think you\u2019re going insane \u2013<br \/>\nThat\u2019s normal<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">If all you do is cry \u2013<br \/>\nThat\u2019s normal<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">If you have trouble with most minor decisions \u2013<br \/>\nThat\u2019s normal<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">If you have any feelings of rage, denial and depression \u2013<br \/>\nThat\u2019s normal<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">If your friends dwindle away and you feel like you have the plague \u2013<br \/>\nThat\u2019s normal<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">If your blood boils and hairs on your arm curl when someone tells you it god\u2019s will \u2013<br \/>\nThat\u2019s normal<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">If you can\u2019t talk about it but you can smash dishes, shred old phonebooks or kick the garbage can (perfectly empty) down the street \u2013<br \/>\nThat\u2019s normal<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">If you can share your story, your feelings with an understanding listener, another bereaved person \u2013<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">That\u2019s a beginning<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">If you get a glimmer of your loved one\u2019s life, rather than their death \u2013<br \/>\nThat\u2019s wonderful<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">If you can remember your loved one\u2019s smile-<br \/>\nThat\u2019s healing<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">If you find your mirrors have become windows and you are able to reach out to other people \u2013<br \/>\nThat\u2019s growing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 32px; font-family: 'Petit Formal Script';\" data-fusion-font=\"true\" data-fusion-google-font=\"Petit Formal Script\" data-fusion-google-variant=\"400\"><u>We talk about them because we\u2019re proud<\/u><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">We talk about them, because they deserve to be remembered.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">We talk about them, because even though they are not physically with us, they are never far from our mind.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">We talk about them, because they are part of us, a part that we could never ignore or disown.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">We talk about them because we love them still and always will.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Forever. Nothing will ever change that.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b><span style=\"font-size: 32px; font-family: 'Petit Formal Script';\" data-fusion-font=\"true\" data-fusion-google-font=\"Petit Formal Script\" data-fusion-google-variant=\"400\"><u><br \/><\/u><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b><span style=\"font-size: 32px; font-family: 'Petit Formal Script';\" data-fusion-font=\"true\" data-fusion-google-font=\"Petit Formal Script\" data-fusion-google-variant=\"400\"><u>Happy Birthday (again)<\/u><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2018Happy Birthday\u2019 the messages say,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">But will I ever be \u2018happy\u2019 on this day,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">She\u2019s not here to share it with me,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">So there is no way I can be.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It\u2019s another Birthday without her<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">25 years of memories pass in a blur<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Full of fun and love, now deep in the past,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Making the emptiness feel so vast.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">She\u2019s always made it so special,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">So on this day I am an empty vessel,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I wish the day to be over,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It\u2019s hard to celebrate without her.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">To the outside world I am fine,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">But to this day I resign,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I am broken, in pain,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Willing the return to \u2018normal grief\u2019 again.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Most of the day I am numb inside,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Anger builds then is put aside,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I do typical Birthday things,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Regretting the sadness it brings.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">There is a week of prior dread,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The day itself I want to say in bed,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Then a week of exhausting recovery,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">A \u2018grief hangover\u2019 my new discovery.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It\u2019s left me thinking, we need new wording,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For someone\u2019s Birthday who\u2019s hurting,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For a day that\u2019s not \u2018happy\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">But instead is pretty crappy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">So when you\u2019re writing that card,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Think, will this person find this Birthday hard,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Instead of \u2018Happy Birthday\u2019 try Thinking of You,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: 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